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I do not wish they would torrent this. People, think about it. Personal, private phone numbers. Why would you want this information? Seriously the comments here
by belluchan 13y ago
I do not wish they would torrent this. People, think about it. Personal, private phone numbers. Why would you want this information? Seriously the comments here make me sad for humanity right now.
- awwducks 13y agoAgreed. I get that a lot of these responses may be knee-jerk, but that doesn't excuse it.
- xtirpation 13y agoTorrent or not, I want to see if any of my less tech-savvy friends are on the list so I can warn them even though I don't use Snapchat myself. It's much easier to convince them there's a real problem if I can say "Look, I can get your phone number and username from the Internet just like that" rather than explaining theoretical reasons why they're vulnerable.
- TylerE 13y agoPhone numbers are hardly private information.
- hnriot 13y agoit's not that - resolving who people are across many services needs lots of fields of info. The more the better the accuracy of the algorithms that find the correlations.
- coralreef 13y agoHmm, I somewhat disagree. Private information is anything you don't want public. By protocol, it isn't strictly private. But a phone number is private/unknown until its known, which is how most of us prefer it. For example, in implicit social code it is impolite to give away a friend's phone number without asking them first.
- rietta 13y agoThe gray area for that is sharing a business phone number of your friend that they share widely through business cards or their website. Though typically it ends up being an email introduction if you really care to connect someone with your friend.
- TylerE 13y agoSeriously? Ever heard of whitepages.com?
- rmc 13y agoDisagree. I suspect they would fall under personal data in the European Union under the Data Protection Directive.
- X4 13y agoindeed. rmc is right.
- babby 13y ago>Why would you want this information? >Hacker News >Hacker
- cenhyperion 13y agoThat's not really the definition of hacker in regards to hacker news. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
- babby 13y agoI'm implying that no real hacker sees such information as "off limits", especially when it's in such a readily, publicly available form.
- rosser 13y agoWhy would you want this information? Perhaps to see if one's own number is among those leaked?
- NicoJuicy 13y agoleaking this data to the public could do more for us then ignoring it ;-)
- NicoJuicy 13y agoleaking this data to the public could do more for us then ignoring it ;-)